Just to prove I'm still alive and spotting. x3

Here's CSX 7310, an ex-Conrail GE C40-8W diesel, waiting to depart with a local manifest train. (Q456?) She's waiting on her crew to finish inspecting her axles, and will shortly receive a green signal northbound to Waycross.

There are a few ways to tell if a C40-8W is ex-Conrail on the CSX:

- Obviously, the paint. Several still remain in their as-delivered Conrail blue schemes.
- Marker lights. These are small red lamps set into the nose and long hood end on the locomotive, and are illuminated to indicate when an engine is at the rear of a train, rather than the front. 7310's marker lights are visible in her nose, just above her number boards. (CSX rarely uses markers; Norfolk Southern is actively removing them.)
- Headlights. On all ex-Conrail C40-8Ws, the locomotive headlamps are mounted high up on the cab roof between the windshield tops, as seen on the 7310. All CSX-ordered C40s have their headlights mounted over-under in the center top of the nose, right above the 'CSX' lettering.

The only real defect in this photo is the unavoidable shadow cast across the 7310's nose by a nearby cell phone tower. >_< Oh well, it still looks pretty darn good for being shot from inside a car several hundred feet away. x3